Al Green: I Can’t Stop

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They say that the Devil has the best tunes. But gospel has always produced the sexiest voices. The raw soul power of Aretha Franklin and the breathy sensuality of Mavis Staples both came out of church singing. So, too, did Al Green, who began in a gospel quartet and then went solo and secular to produce some of the most memorably profane moments in soul music. In the early 1970s, with the producer Willie Mitchell, Green recorded such smouldering seduction classics as Let’s Stay Together, Tired of Being Alone and Here I Am, rivalled as a bedroom soundtrack only by